Changing Colors
Within the span of just a few minutes the colors of the rising sun change drastically.
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Wooly Bear
This is a wooly bear caterpillar. I grew up calling them wooly worms. This is the larval form of the Isabella Tiger Moth. This caterpillar, according to legend, forecasts the coming winter weather. Again I defer to the Old Farmers Almanac, (http://www.almanac.com/content/predicting-winter-weather-woolly-bear-caterpillars), “the wider that middle brown section is (i.e., the more brown segments there are), the milder the coming winter will be. Conversely, a narrow brown band is said to predict a harsh winter. ” So, it is the wooly worm vs the persimmon seed in weather prediction. I am voting for the wooly worm 🙂
Acorn
While Glen and I were at Knob Noster State Park hiking the trails we saw lots of neat things. There were a lot of oak trees that have dropped a lot of acorns. This one particular acorn caught our eye. It was cracked open so we could see the nut inside, which was reddish in color. I have never seen an acorn with red meat and I am not able to find anywhere on the “all knowing internet” as to why it would be red. We did get a lot of rain last week and maybe it had been soaking in some muddy water and the tannins in the nut made it turn red…..that is my best guess.
Clouds that look like things
Do you ever look at objects and see things within that object? I do….all the time.
This cloud has a rainbow in its hand getting ready to shove it into its cloud mouth.
Sick of Snow
Everyone in the house is sick and tired of old man winter. Yesterday we had a nice little winter storm warning that dumped a bunch of snow.
Lilly, as well as all of our critters, is ready for spring.
Predicting the Weather?
I finally got around to cutting open a persimmon seed. I only cut open one because they are super hard and I could see myself slicing off a finger or stabbing myself.
It is in the shape of a spoon. So, if you believe the wives tale, we will be getting a lot of heavy, wet snow this winter. For more on persimmon seeds predicting winter weather check out this website.
Getting Cloudy
Yesterday evening a weather front moved in bringing thunderstorms in it’s path. No sleep with our fraidy dog Petey.
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